EP0371677B1 - Appareil de traitement de signal d'image - Google Patents
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- the present invention realtes to an image signal processing equipment/apparatus for processing image signals which are different in their baseband signal format, such as an NTSC signal and an MUSE signal.
- JP-A-62-206977 entitled "High Definition Digital Television Receiver".
- an NTSC signal supplied to an NTSC signal input terminal 1 is supplied to both one terminal of a switch 2 and an NTSC signal processing circuit 3.
- the NTSC signal is selected by the switch 2 which is connected with the side indicated by a solid line, using a control signal from a control terminal to be sent to a first frame memory 5; this frame memory 5 and a second frame memory 6 which is in a cascade connection with the first frame memory 6 are adapted to be suitable for the NTSC signal processing by the control signal from a conductive line 41.
- the NTSC signal two frames before is supplied to the NTSC signal processing circuit 3 through a switch 7 to which the output from the second frame memory is supplied and is connected with the side indicated by a solid line, and a conductive line 71. Also, the NTSC signal one frame before is supplied to the NTSC signal processing circuit 3 through a conductive line 51. After having performed a predetermined processing, the NTSC signal processing circuit 3 sends out an image signal based on the NTSC signal to a first signal output terminal 10 as a first output signal.
- the switches 2 and 7 are connected with the side indicated by a broken line which is opposite to the case mentioned above.
- the first frame memory 5 and the second frame memory 6 are adapted to be suitable for the MUSE signal processing by the control signal from the conductive line 41.
- the MUSE signals are supplied to an MUSE signal processing circuit 9. After having performed a predetermined processing, the MUSE signal processing circuit 9 sends out to a second signal output terminal 80 a high definition television image signal which has been obtained by decoding a bandwidth-compressed signal.
- the above prior art has the following disadvantage.
- the first and second frame memories 5 and 6 (having a memory capacity of about 4 Mbit, respectively) which are required in principle to process the MUSE signals are also used to process the NTSC signals; the other signal processing circuits are individually provided. Therefore, it is difficult to greatly reduce the production cost of the television receiver having the prior art. In order to realize this, the signal processing circuits are required to be considerably simplified.
- An object of the invention is to provide an image signal processing apparatus which can realize both high quality signal processing and low production cost by processing MUSE signals and NTSC signals by a substantially common signal processing circuit.
- the frame delay means delays an input image signal to produce two kinds of image signals one frame or two frames before the field in issue.
- the movement detection means supplied with these image signals is composed of the one frame interval movement detection circuit for producing a first movement signal based on a one frame interval difference signal, the two frame interval movement detection circuit for producing a second movement signal based on a two frame interval difference signal and the composition circuit for composing the first and second movement signals into a composite movement signal which is supplied to the mixing means as a control signal.
- the processing means controls the one frame interval movement detection circuit and the two frame interval movement detection circuit for both modes of the NTSC signal and the MUSE signal so that the former performs narrow bandwidth signal processing so as to operate for only the low frequency signal component free from a so-called aliasing signal component due to compression of a sub-Nyquist sampling band and a frequency-multiplexed signal component, and the latter performs a wide band signal processing not so as to substantially limit the signal band.
- the moving picture processing means performs a spatial filter processing for an input signal of the field in issue to produce the first image signal.
- the still image processing means uses the image signals of the field in issue and one frame before it, performs inter-frame interpolation processing for the MUSE signal, and performs inter-frame arithmetic operation for the NTSC signal to remove a carrier chrominance signal component from the frequency-multiplexed signal component, thereby to produce the second image signal.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an image signal processing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a block diagram of an image signal processing apparatus according to the prior art.
- Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an image signal processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- a frame delay circuit 500 is composed of a first frame memory 50 and a second frame memory 60. These first and second frame memories 50 and 60 are controlled, for any signal supplied through the switch 21, by a mode control signal sent through a conductive line 42 from a terminal 40 so that they hold one frame, respectively.
- a mode control signal sent through a conductive line 42 from a terminal 40 so that they hold one frame, respectively.
- all the image signal components with the carrier chrominance signal frequency multiplexed are subjected to one frame delay processing to send out the NTSC signals one frame before and two frames before to a conductive line 52 and a conductive line 61, respectively.
- a first signal processing circuit 601 extracts from the respective signals the low frequency hand components not including the carrier chrominance signals (e.g. luminance signals at up to about 2 MHz), and a subtracter 602 acquires a one frame interval difference signal component between the respective signals; this difference signal component is subjected to an absolute value processing and thereafter is sent to a conductive line 603 directly or through a desired signal processing as required as a one frame interval movement detection signal based on the one frame interval difference signal component.
- the carrier chrominance signals e.g. luminance signals at up to about 2 MHz
- a subtracter 611 makes direct subtraction for all the image signal components of the NTSC signal which are relatively different by two frames since all the signal components are in phase for a still image; the two frame interval difference signal component thus obtained is subjected to the absolute value processing, and thereafter is sent to a third frame memory 612 and a second signal processing 613 directly or a desired signal processing as required.
- the second signal processing circuit 613 to which an output signal from the third frame memory 612 and an output signal from the subtracter 611 are supplied through a conductive line 614 and a conductive line 615, respectively, in response to the mode control signal supplied through the conductive line 42, sends out a larger one of the above output signals or an average value thereof to a conductive line 616 as a two frame interval movement detection signal based on two frame interval difference signal.
- a composition circuit 617 to which the one frame interval movement detection signal and the two frame interval movement detection signal are supplied through the condition lines 603 and 616 selects larger one of them or takes an average value thereof to send it to a conductive line 618 as a composite movement signal.
- a moving picture processing circuit 300 is composed of a first low-pass filter circuit (LPF) to which the NTSC signal is supplied as an input signal through the conductive line 24 and a switch 302. This moving picture processing circuit 300 is controlled by the mode selection signal supplied through the conductive line 42 so that an output signal from a second low-pass filter (LPF) 401 of a still image processing circuit 400 is selected by the switch 302 and sent to one input of a mixing circuit 70 through a conductive line 303.
- LPF low-pass filter circuit
- the second LPF 401 extracts the luminance signal component from the NTSC signal on the field in issue by the two dimensional spatial filter processing using the correlation between the image signals in a horizontal and vertical directions to send out to a conductive line 402 as the luminance signal for the moving picture. Therefore, the luminance signal subjected to the processing within the field in issue is supplied to the conductive line 303 of the moving picture processing circuit 300.
- a third LPF 403 to which the one-frame-before NTSC signal is supplied through the conductive line 52 sends out a one-frame-before luminance signal to a conductive line 404 in the same manner as in the second LPF.
- switches 405 and 406 in accordance with the mode control signal from the conductive line 42, serve to select the outputs from the second and third LPF's to supply the in-issue field signal and the one-frame-before signal, which are relatively different by one frame, to a third signal processing circuit 407.
- the third signal processing circuit 407 is controlled by the above mode control signal to carry out the addition of the NTSC signals and removes through the frame correlation processing the carrier chrominance signal component for the still image from the input signal with the carrier chrominance signal remaining in the image component with less correlation in the horizontal or vertical direction so as to send out the luminance signal for the still image to a conductive line.
- the mixing circuit 70 is supplied with the luminance signals for the moving picture and the still image through the conductive lines 303 and 408, respectively. Using the composite movement signal from the conductive line 618 as a control signal, the mixing circuit 70 mixes these luminance signals as a predetermined ratio and also selects the luminance signal on the side of the conductive line 408 or 303 for the complete still image part or moving picture part. The luminance signal thus obtained is sent to a signal output terminal.
- the switches 21, 302, 405 and 406 are controlled by the mode control signal so as to provide the signal selection state opposite to the case of selecting the NTSC signal as illustrated in Fig. 1.
- the first to third frame memories 50, 60 and 612 perform one frame delay processing for the MUSE signal; the frame memories 50 and 60, therefore, send out the one-frame-before MUSE signal and the two-frame-before MUSE signal to the conductive lines 52 and 61, respectively.
- the first signal processing circuit 601 is controlled by the mode control signal so that it extracts, for the in-issue field signal and the one-frame-before signal, the low frequency signal component at up to about 4 MHz free from the aliasing signal component generated owing to the sub-Nyquist sampling processing.
- the subtracter 602 produces a one frame interval difference signal, and the one frame interval detection signal based on it is sent to the conductive line 603.
- the second signal processing circuit 613 is controlled by the mode control signal to carry out inter-frame interpolation, and sends out a two frame interval movement detection signal based on the two frame interval difference signal to the conductive line 616.
- the composition circuit 617 selects a larger one of the one frame interval movement detection signal and the two frame interval movement detection signal or takes an average value thereof to send it to a conductive line 618 as a composite movement signal.
- the MUSE signal on the in-issue field supplied through the conductive line 24 is subjected to the two-dimensional spatial filter processing in the first LPF and the signal thus formed is supplied to the mixing circuit 70 as a signal for the moving picture part through the switch 302 and the conductive line 303.
- the in-issue field MUSE signal and the one-frame-before MUSE signal supplied through the conductive lines 24 and 52, respectively are sent to the third signal processing circuit 407 through the switches 405 and 406.
- the third signal processing circuit 407 after having performed the inter-frame interpolation processing and the other desired signal processing by the mode control signal, supplies the signal thus formed to the mixing circuit 70 as a signal for the still image part through the conductive line 408.
- the mixing circuit 70 mixes the above two kinds of input signals using the above composite signal as a control signal, and sends out the signal thus formed to the output terminal 800 as a high definition television signal restored from the MUSE signal which is a bandwidth-compressed signal.
- the mode control signal carries out the above controls described above and serves to change the clock signal or the operation condition of predetermined counters in accordance with the NTSC signal and the MUSE signal. Therefore, the increase of scale of the equipment can be remarkably suppressed.
- the movement signal detected for the moving part of input image signals which different in their signal format, optimum signal processings for both still image part and moving picture part can be made in substantially the same circuit.
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- Dispositif de traitement d'image pour traiter un signal MUSE en entrée ou un signal NTSC en entrée, le dispositif comprenant un moyen de sélection de signal (21) pour sélectionner soit le signal MUSE, soit le signal NTSC en tant que signal à traiter; un moyen de retardement d'image complète (500,602,611) pour générer, à partir du signal MUSE ou NTSC sélectionné, un signal de différence d'intervalle à une image complète et un signal de différence d'intervalle à deux images complètes; et un moyen de traitement (300,400,600,610) pour traiter le signal sélectionné et les signaux de différence d'intervalle à une image complète et d'intervalles à deux images complètes; le dispositif étant caractérisé en ce que ledit moyen de traitement (300,400,600,610) comprend:
un moyen de détection de mouvement (600,610), relié au moyen de sélection et au moyen de retardement d'image complète (500,602,611), le moyen de détection de mouvement contenant un circuit de détection de mouvement d'un intervalle à une image complète (600), un circuit de détection de mouvement d'un intervalle à deux images complètes (610) et un circuit de composition (617) pour composer un signal de sortie (618) représentant le mouvement d'image;
un moyen de traitement d'image mobile (300), relié au moyen de sélection (21), pour générer un premier signal d'image représentant une partie image mobile du signal d'entrée sélectionné;
un moyen de traitement d'image fixe (400), relié au moyen de sélection (21) et au moyen de retardement (500,602,611), pour générer un second signal d'image représentant une partie image fixe du signal d'entrée sélectionné;
un moyen mélangeur (70) pour mélanger le premier signal d'image et le second signal d'image sous la commande du signal (618) représentant le mouvement d'image; et en ce que
ledit circuit de détection de mouvement d'un intervalle d'une image complète (600) est agencé de façon à utiliser une composante de signal à basse fréquence qui ne contient pas une composante de signal de chrominance multiplexé en fréquence ou une composante de repliement de signal dans le traitement respectif du signal MUSE ou du signal NTSC en entrée; et
ledit circuit de détection de mouvement d'un intervalle à deux images complètes (610) comprend une mémoire d'image complète (612) pour fournir un retard d'image complète au signal de différence d'intervalle à deux images complètes, et un moyen de traitement (613) pour traiter un signal provenant du moyen de retardement d'image complète (50,60), qui est basé sur le signal de différence d'intervalle à deux images complètes et du retard d'image complète dans ladite mémoire d'image complète (612), de manière à produire un signal interpolé entre images complètes pour le signal MUSE sélectionné, et à fournir un signal de sortie de détection de mouvement d'intervalle à deux images complètes (616) en tant que signal d'entrée dudit circuit de composition (617), ce qui fait qu'un signal composite est fourni pour le signal NTSC sélectionné. - Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit circuit de détection de mouvement d'intervalle à une image complète (600) extrait un composant de signal à basse fréquence, jusqu'à 4 MHz environ pour le signal MUSE et jusqu'à 2 MHz environ pour le signal NTSC.
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